The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild

oh i did that

i kinda love the motion control for precise aiming, but it feels natural on the handhold and weird on the big screen -- but yeah i've been playing the last of us this week and i keep trying to aim by tilting the ps4 pad

the first thing I played on my switch was 50 hours of Splatoon so now the motion controls are totally natural and I can't deal with any game that doesn't use them for aiming

I cant use it, my hands arent steady enough. Tho obviously its neccesary for the tilt puzzles in some of the shrines.

the first time i had one of those i was so annoyed that you can't really just glide over there and do it manually. i mean you can but it's even futzier than it is to just do the tilt puzzle.

just did the korok trials. they were extremely annoying, and I loved it. think I might try dragging out the main quest for a full year. don't want to disappoint the weapons connoisseur.

low note swell when you're swallowed by the lost woods fog is very twin peaksy

would welcome major briggs head shield dlc

I can read a thousand more of these "why Breath of the Wild is so great" gushing articles.
https://www.polygon.com/2018/1/10/16868292/zelda-breath-of-the-wild-best-games-2017-year-in-review

One of my hands doesn't work that great anymore - I can play Ocarina on the GameCube fine - but would you say Breath is stupidly difficult? I've always kinda hated complex-control games, right back to when Elite made me cry out of boredom.

i didn't find the controls complex so much as i found that they require lots of menuing, which to me is the opposite of complex because it doesn't require me to master complicated real-time fluid hand gestures - the fact that i can't quite remember how to shoot arrows a lot of the time and wound up trial-and-erroring it didn't really keep me from beating the game. i can see how having to spend 30 seconds scrolling through your inventory to find a healing item can break immersion, though.

it's more difficult than the other 3d zeldas - you can't just mash your way through fights like you can in much of Ocarina. you need to either use your tools and the environment in clever ways or get good at dodge/parry timing.

Love it, had it delivered today, accidentally played for six hours. It turns out the wee controls are perfect for somebody with slightly incapacitated movement.

awesome!

I am dying a lot. Don't save your game on top of a broken temple roof. Still amazing though!

the game autosaves pretty much any time you're about to encounter anything, i only ever manually save when i'm done playing

finally saved up 13 hearts and made it to the master sword. 2 divine beasts down but i think i will wander aimlessly, im in no hurry to finish this game ever.

yeah thats about as far as i ever got as well

been doing all side/shrine quests. Amazing how much you miss following the main quest.

I've been saving before I cook so I can experiment with different recipes

Not a sentence I was expecting to type after I bought Zelda, but part of the fun is knowing nothing in advance

yeah I have one beast to go (the desert one's internal puzzles are actually really confusing, so I'm not sure I can do it!) and Ive wandered a lot. Actually havent touched zelda in a few weeks tho - I got caught up playing civ V during my hols.

Tip also for anyone who didnt know: when you see the very start of a blood moon happen (you'll see a red moon rise, then eventually notice the misty smoke in the air), cook if you're near a cookfire! All recipes will get the bonus.

there's a blood moon cooking bonus??

yep! its a pretty small window but time seems to stop when you throw food in the pot so if you do that over and over in quick succession Ive found I can fit in at least 4 or 5 recipes if I time it right.

That said I never seem to be near a bloody pot when it happens.

The bonus appears to stop after the moon peak/cut scene, its worth noting.

that is really cool, first i've heard of this bonus!

im unlocking the various shrines in the lost woods. this game is magic

blood moon cooking bonus is news to me as well. finished up goron beast yesterday. felt like a stroll through tarry town square after gerudo beast. I can see by what you carry (about 40 loads of wood) that you come from tarry town.

this game

wow

I wasn’t sure at first. the world seemed so empty for stretches. but you really need that emptiness to make all the little discoveries so magical

<3

the dev presentation about the world design someone posted is fantastic if you can find the link

it was great, but got screwed up because the guy took down the pictures by request since they were from a private presentation

Damn. I would read a book about BotW design.

Had this for a month now and still loving it. I'm pretty inexperienced/slow - I just made it to hurricane windy Ganon, my first boss fight, and decided to run away again until I've got more hearts. That fucker's tricky - or is it just me? I hope it's just me.

Thunderblight was trickiest for me

the others seemed to have tricks to beating them

yeah the wind one is prob the easiest of the four tbh

still cant kill the camel one, been about 5 months since my first effort lol

its the second bit with metal shards where i just cant see him anywhere

I'm so excited, because I've been piddling around with a bunch of indies but have yet to start this or Odyssey. One of them will be my reward for finishing "Celeste."

I found the camel one the hardest by far

Josh it's AMAZING and you will be AMAZED

I've also held back on Odyssey as a reward - gonna buy it when I've finished some university coursework next week...

Thunderblight Ganon is the undisputed hardest boss ime

Oh I see, you gotta use the wind turrets, duh

only way to beat thunderblight (camel) is to take your licks along with shock resist or a ton of hearty heart heart meals

I wish I could get that far, I cant work out the camels innards!

i remember that taking me forever

camel's a xunt

The inside of that camel was the only part of the whole game that made me say fuck this shit, I had to leave it

btw I said it over there but it bears repeating: Odyssey is a disappointment

take that back